Rihanna Reinvents Maternity Style At The 2023 Oscars
Her perfect maternity style takes the red carpet.
Rihanna made the most Rihanna entrance at the 2023 Oscars.
The singer was caught on video walking into Los Angeles's Dolby Theatre in a grey Eagles T-shirt, Black Vans sneakers, an olive green bucket hat, a matching tote bag, sunglasses, and giant gold hoop earrings with a matching chain bracelet.
Soon after, however, she changed into a chic black Alaïa dress with a leather skirt with a long train and sheer mesh paneling at the torso—where her growing baby bump shone through. The floor-length dress also featured leather straps, a mesh turtleneck, and mesh at the sleeves. She accessorised with two massive diamond rings with large brown stones, and diamond-and-emerald drop earrings.
The pop star had her hair up in a spiky bun and wore shimmering silver eye shadow, rosy blush, and a bright red lip.
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Tonight, Rihanna will perform her song "Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The track, which is nominated for Best Original Song, earned the singer her first Oscar nomination. Other nominees include Lady Gaga's "Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick, "This Is a Life" from Everything Everywhere All at Once, "Naatu Naatu" from RRR, and "Applause" from Tell It like a Woman.
"Lift Me Up," which also nabbed a Golden Globe nomination, marks the first single that Rihanna has dropped in six years.
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Black Panther director Ryan Coogler previously spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about getting Rihanna to end her musical hiatus. He explained that he wanted the film's closing song to not only honor the memory of leading star Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020, but to also reflect the experience of parenthood.
"It's her experience with loss in there, and her being a mother. She's a new person now. [Parenthood] changes you to your core. I hear it in her voice. It's her, but it's a new her," Coogler told the outlet.
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Last month, Rihanna delivered a historic performance for her first Super Bowl Halftime Show, where she subtly announced that she is pregnant with her second child with boyfriend A$AP Rocky.
"When I first got the call to do it again this year, I was like, 'You sure?' Like, I'm three months postpartum, like, should I be making major decisions like this right now? Like, I might regret this," she said during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show press conference. "But when you become a mom, there's something that just happens where you feel like you could take on the world, you can do anything."
This article originally appeared in Harper's BAZAAR US.